Advertising device.



No. 729,843. PATENTBD JUNE 2, 1903.

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Miren STATES PATENT OFFICE' Patented .T une 2, 1903.

WILLIAM CARR, or. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters IpPaltent N 0.729,84, dated June 2, 1903. i

' Application md March so, loca-.semina 150,201.` (No model.)

To n/ZZ whom, t may concern/ Be it known that LWILLIAM CJCARR, a'citi zen of the United States,residing at Indianapthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved ap-l paratus for exhibiting display advertisingcards--such as portraits, engravings, printed;

matter, or such like; and the sameconsis'ts in means whereby'each of the said cards is:- -.moved into position to be exhibited in suc-g cession.

tising-cards will be `reduced to a minimum number of parts and arranged in compact form, thereby permitting a reduction in the '1 dimensions of the cabinetinclosing said mechthroughout the several views.

Figure 1' is a front view of the top brokenoff portion of the cabinet, showing the displaying front or window. Fig. 2 is a sectional.`

plan view ofthe same, taken through the lineCD.

through thelineAkB. (SeeFigsl and 2.) Fig.

4.- is a detail vie-w of the drive mechanism. Fig.

5 is an enlarged sectional detail View of the drive-rack and pinion. Fig. b' is' an enlarged detail sectional view of the rack, crank-pin, and worm-gear. Fig. 7 is a detail perspective view ofthe advertising-card-carryingframe.,` Fig. 8 is a broken-'off detail sectional viewof.`

the end of the cabinet, showing the groove 'or guidewaythereof.V Fig: Sli-is adetailsectional" view of the driven or idler bottom sprocketwheel; and Fig, 10 is a broken-olf sectional view of the top portion of the cabinet, taken through theline G H, Fig. 3. Fig. 11 is a Vertical sectional view of the casing, showing the `upper and lower sprocket-wheels.

I attain these olo-` (See Figs.` 2 and 8.) Fig, 3 is a sec-` tional elevational view of the cabinet, taken,V

The cabinet 1, in which the mechanism is inclosed, is provided with a display opening or window, in which opening or window is mounted a glass 4, and situated at the top and bottom portions of said window, adjacent to the edges" thereof, are suitable reflectors 3 and 4, back of which are situated'the incandescent lamps 5 and G, the light from which is reflected Aagainst A'the faces of the adver- -tising-cards as they are exposed to view in4 `ifrontof the window 2. 7 is provided for the purpose-of gaining easy `access to the mechanism and for removing c `and replacing advertising-card frames when The object of this invention is to construct an advertising-cabinet in which the mechan-` ism for operating or transferring the adver-4 A suitable rear door such is necessary. Vertically-extending forward grooves or guideways 8 and similar ver- `tically-entendingrear grooves 9, all ofwhich have their top ends open andtheir bottom ends connected by the forwardly and horizontally inclined grooves or guideways 10, are formed in the opposite sides or ends of said cabinet 1 andare situated to be directly opposite each other. Rearwardly and horizout-all y inclined guides or gravity-runners 1 l extend from the top open portions of the forward grooves or guideways 8 to the top open portions of the rear grooves or guideways 9, and retaining stop-pins l1s are secured to the I rear ends of said runners 11 and are provided for the purpose of retaining the supportingbarsu12 of the card-holding frames 13 in position on said runners 11 and "for preventing said-bars'lfrom sliding'into and Apiling in the rear vertically-extending groovesor guideways9. 'IIhe bottonrportionsoflthe grooves or guideways 9 are curved forwardly and l down wardly'to ward thebottorn" horizontally- `j-inclined groovesor guideway'sl'Ofor the pur- 'pose hereinafter set forth.

Ashaftlll is situated within the top portionofihecabinet l and is mounted in its fend bearings 15 to turn therein, and on said shaft is secured the sprocket-'wheels 16 to turn therewith. Directly and vertically under said l"top"sprocket-wheels 16 are the sprocketwheels 17 and 18, whichare mounted on their fixed studs 19 and 19, whereon they are adapted to freely turn. On the reduced portion 2O of the hub 2l of the sprocket-wheel 17 is firmly secured to turn therewith the pinion 22, which is adapted to mesh with the IOO reciprocating rack 23, by which latter said pinion 22 and its sprocket-wheel 17 are rotated in alternate opposite directions. The rack 23 is either firmly secured or formed integral on the pitman 24, and said pitman 24is provided with the longitudinally-extending slot 25, formed in its top portion, and said slot is in parallel relation with said rack and is adapted to freely tit on the hub 21 of said sprocketwheel 17. The bottom end 24 of the pitman 24 is connected to the erankpin 26, which latter is adjustablysecured in the slot 27, formed radially in the side of the wormwheel 28, so that said rack 23 may be adjusted to have agi-eater or lesser travehaccording as it is necessary to either increase or diminish the travel of the endless chains 29. A shaft 30 is journaled in asuitable bearing-stamlard 31, and on said shaft ispthe worm 32, which meshes with the worm-wheel 28 to rotate the latter contin uously and in the same direction. A pulley 33 is secured on one end of said shaft 30, and a band 34 extends from said driven pulley to the drive-pulley 3(5,which latter is secured on the shaft 37 of any suitable motor38. rlheendlesschains29 surround the sprocket-wheels 16 and 17 and 18, and on thel forward or front portion of said chain 29 are yieldingly secured the lifting-dogs 39. Each of the dogs 39 is provided with the arms 40, to the free endsof which are connected the yielding springs 4l, which latter permit said dogs 39 to swing upwardly to pass the bars 12 when said dogs are moving in a downward direction, which movement immediately follows after a bar 12 has been placed in position on the runners 1l. Lowering-dogs 42 are connected to adjacent links in position on the rear vertically-extending portion of said chain 29 and arel provided for the purpose of removing said frame-carrying-bars 12 from their upper supporting-runners 11 over the stop-pin 11s and lowering said bars 12 into the lower grooves or guideways 10, in which grooves, owing to their forwardly and horizontally inclined positions, said bars move forwardly into position to be successively removed therefrom and again elevated into position to be exposed to view or exhibited. Stripping-springs 43 are situated at or near the top open ends of the grooves or guideways 8, and said springs are secured to the ends of said cabinet 1, one at each end, in such position relatively to said grooves to be inclined upwardly and rearwardly from the front top portion of said grooves to positively strip or remove the bars 12 successively from their lifting-dogs 39 and place said bars on their supporting-runners l1.

The practice of my invention I will now proceed to describe. A series of eight of said frame-carrying bars 12 are mounted on the upper runners or supporting-ways 11, anda like series of eight are placed in the lower grooves or guideways 10. The runners 11 being horizontally inclined in a rearward direction cause the bars 12 to move by gravity or slide on the said runners against the rear stop-pins llsand in contact with each other, and similarly thelower grooves or guideways 10 being horizontally inclined forwardly said framecarrying bars 12 tend to move and do move forwardly into said front grooves or guideways 8 and remain in close contact with each other. The top runners 11 and the bottom grooves or guideways 10 being charged with the requisite number of card-frames 13, in which suitable advertising-cards have been placed, the motor 3S is started to operate the mechanism, whereby the chain 29 is caused to move 'alternately' in opposite directions. Suppose the dogs 39 in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3 and the forward portion of the chain 29 moving in the direction of the arrow a. Then the dog 39 will engage the bar 12a and elevate the same in the vertically-extending guideways or grooves Sinto the position of the dog 39 shown in full lines, at which position ofsaid dogs 39 the bar 12 has been elevated to the position indi-v cated bythe bar designated 12", at which position of said bar the latter contacts with the stripping-spring 43 to be gradually removed from said dogs 39 and deposited on the topsupporting-runners 11.. Simultaneous with this movement't-he rear portion of the chain 29 moves downwardly, as indicated by the arrow b, to lower the bar, as 12C, down in the rear vertically-extending grooves or guideways 9, and when said bar 12 in its downward movement in said ways reaches the bottom downwardly and forwardly curved bot- -tom portions 10n of said rearvertical ways 9 said bar12C will slide downwardly and forwardly into said bottom grooves or guideways l0 out of the path of said lowering-dogs 42, thus permitting the latter to pass upwardly without contacting with the rearmost bar situated in said lower groove 10. The rear bar 12, situated on the runners 11 and contacting with the stop-pins 11S, is removed from said runners by the dogs 42 and will be now described. The dogs 42 in their upward movement will engage the bottom side of the bar 12d and elevate theA same upwardly a slight distance above said ystop-pins 115, and said dogs beinghorizontally and backwardly inclined toward said chain said bar 12(1 will slide on the said inclined top edges of said dogs 42 till it contacts with the said carryingchain 29 and the latter moves downwardly to lower said bar, as previously described.

Having thus fully described this my invention,what I claim as new and useful, and desire to cover by Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is-

1. In an advertising apparatus, the combination with opposing forward and rearward vertically-extending guideways open at their top ends and connected at their bottom ends by forwardlyextending inclined guideways, supporting-runners situated intermediate ICO IIO

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said vertical guideways and adjacent the top open ends thereof, card supporting bars adapted to be supported at their ends in said lower guideways and on said top runners, and retaining-stops on said runners, of conveying-chains confronting said vertically-efe,

tending portions confronting said vertical guideways, bar lifting and lowering dogs mounted on said vertically-extending por-` tions of said chains, means for removing the` bars from said elevating dogs and means whereby said chains are traversed alternately in opposite directions.

3. In an advertising apparatus, the combination with opposing forward and rearward vertically-extending guideways open at their top ends and connected at their bottom ends by forwardly-extending inclined gnideways,

rearwardly-extending inclined runners situ# ated intermediate said vertically-extending guideways and adjacent the top open ends thereof, card-supporting bars adapted to be supported at their ends in said lower guideways and on said runners and stops situated at the lower ends of said runners, of endless conveyer-chains having their depending portions confronting said vertically-extending guideways, elevatingdogs yieldingly mounted on the forward depending portions of said chains, lowering-dogs mounted on the rear depending portions of said chains, verticallyextending and rearwardly-inclined strippin gs situated at the top open ends of said forward vertically-extending guideways, and means for traversing said chains alternately in opposaid upper sprockets, endless chains connecting said upper and lower sprockets and confronting said forward and rearward verticallyextending guideways, bar elevating lifting-dogs yieldingly mounted on the forward depending portions of said chains, lowering-dogs mounted on the rear depending portions of said chain and suitable means for traversing said chains alternately in opposite directions.

5. In an advertising apparatus, the combination with opposing forward and rearward vertically-extending guideways open at their top ends and connected at their botto'm ends by forwardly-extending inclined guideways, rearwardly-extending inclined runners sit uated intermediate said vertically-extending 4guideways and adjacent the top ends thereof, card-supporting bars adapted to be supported at their ends in said lower guideways and on said runners and bar-retaining stops situated at the lower ends of said runners, of a shaft situated above said supporting-runners,'sprocket-wheels on said shaft, sprocket-wheels situated directly beneath said upper sprockets, endless chains connecting said upper and lower sprockets andhavingtheirdependingportionsconfronti ing said forward and said rearward verticallyextending guideways, bar-elevating lifting dogs yeldingly mounted on the forward depending portions of said chains, lowering-dogs mounted on the rear depending portions of said chains, a rack-pinion on one of said lower sprocket-wheels, a rack, a pitrnan, a revoluble crank-wheel, and means for driving the latter,

6. In an advertising device, the combination with opposing continuous guideways, having vertically-extending portions,connect ed at their top and bottom ends by interposing upper and lower gravity-inclined ways, card-supporting bars resting on said upper and lower gravity-inclined ways, retaining stops situated at the lower ends of said upper gravity-ways, of endless elevator-chains hav ing forward elevating and rear lowering portions, lifting-dogs yieldingly mounted on said forward elevating portions of said chain and lowering-dogs mounted on the rear lowering portions of said chain and means for traversing said chain alternately in opposite directions.

7. In an advertising device, the combination with opposing continuous guideways having,vertically-extending portions and connected at their top and bottom ends by :interposing upper and lower gravity-inclined ways, retaining-stops situated at the lower ends of said upper gravity-ways, of endless elevating-chains, lowering and lifting dogs on said chains, a shaft situated above said bar-guiding ways, sprocket-wheels on said shaft, lower sprocketwheels situated directlybeneath said upper sprocket-wheels, a rack-pinion'on one of said lower sprocket-Wheels, a revoluble crank-wheel, a pitman adj ustably connected IOO IIO

to said crank-Wheel said pitman provided l In testimony whereof have hereunto set with a guiding-slot extending longitudinally my hand in the presence of tWo subscribing of said pitman, a rack on said pitman and Witnesses. situated lin parallel relation to said slot'to f 5 mesh with said pinion at all positions of. said Witnesses:

pitman, and suitable means for rotating said I THOMPSQN R. BELL,

'1 1 SYLVESTER A. MORGAN.

' WILLIAM C.

Crank-Wheel. 

